cvipertooth
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I have grown up, as a christian, to believe that creationism and evolutionism are completely opposite and it is impossible to believe in evolution withouth denying that God is the absolute moral creator of this universe. Today, after learning about evolution in my biology class, I came home and opened my Bible up to Genesis...
Genesis 1:2= "Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters."
hmmmm.......sounds to me like this could be some sort of primordial soup.
Genesis 1:3= "And God said 'let there be light' and there was light...God called the light 'day' and the darkness 'night'"
Genesis 1:14= "And God said 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to seperate the day from the night, let them serve as signs to mark the seasons and the days and the years"
Now, if there was light in 1:3 and then the light that was in the sky (or the sun) wasnt set into place until 1:14, what was the light in between? The light of God's glory? Also, if there was no set time until 1:14 to seperate days, could this period of time between 1:3 and 1:14 where seed plants come onto earth (1:11) be what we know as the Precambrian Era, which accounts from January 1 to mid october on the theoretical calendar? This period of time could be however long God wanted it to be, since God is eternal and is not boudn by time.
Also, the name Adam means made of red clay in hebrew. How exaclty does that mean one person? Could Adam be represented only because he is the beginning of the lineage of Christ? What is to say God did not create "people" before or outside of the Garden Of Eden?
Genesis 1:26-27= "Then God said 'let us make man in our own image, in our likeness, and let him rule over the fish of the sea and the birds in the air, over livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground' (27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
Genesis 2:7= "the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."
In my Bible there is a footnote for the man and according to my Bible, the man means Adam. hmmm. so god created man in his own image in 1:27 but then created adam in 2:7. Was Adam the first, or was Adam the first in the line of Jesus?
I am neither trying to disprove Creation or Evolution, i am rather trying to find a medium between the two. This is a battle that will be fought until Christ comes back but maybe that means that neither side of this argument is wrong. Please give me your opinions and insight.
Genesis 1:2= "Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters."
hmmmm.......sounds to me like this could be some sort of primordial soup.
Genesis 1:3= "And God said 'let there be light' and there was light...God called the light 'day' and the darkness 'night'"
Genesis 1:14= "And God said 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to seperate the day from the night, let them serve as signs to mark the seasons and the days and the years"
Now, if there was light in 1:3 and then the light that was in the sky (or the sun) wasnt set into place until 1:14, what was the light in between? The light of God's glory? Also, if there was no set time until 1:14 to seperate days, could this period of time between 1:3 and 1:14 where seed plants come onto earth (1:11) be what we know as the Precambrian Era, which accounts from January 1 to mid october on the theoretical calendar? This period of time could be however long God wanted it to be, since God is eternal and is not boudn by time.
Also, the name Adam means made of red clay in hebrew. How exaclty does that mean one person? Could Adam be represented only because he is the beginning of the lineage of Christ? What is to say God did not create "people" before or outside of the Garden Of Eden?
Genesis 1:26-27= "Then God said 'let us make man in our own image, in our likeness, and let him rule over the fish of the sea and the birds in the air, over livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground' (27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
Genesis 2:7= "the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."
In my Bible there is a footnote for the man and according to my Bible, the man means Adam. hmmm. so god created man in his own image in 1:27 but then created adam in 2:7. Was Adam the first, or was Adam the first in the line of Jesus?
I am neither trying to disprove Creation or Evolution, i am rather trying to find a medium between the two. This is a battle that will be fought until Christ comes back but maybe that means that neither side of this argument is wrong. Please give me your opinions and insight.